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Introducing Windows Azure (Expert's Voice in .NET)

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This book was clearly rushed to market before the final Azure SDK was released. I'm only on page 6 and already there are 3 errors that are severely preventing me from working through the first example. If the first 6 pages are any indication, this will be a painful book to get through. Save your money until it's properly updated with correct info.

This book was already outdated by the time it was published, despite the rush job to market. Both the tools and SDK (namespaces, etc.) have already changed significantly.

This book is nothing more than a copy&paste of sample source code and screenshots from Visual Studio. In fact the Author wrote only several pages from himself. In my opinion it's better to look for publicly available hands-on-labs from Azure or wait for another book.

This is an informative introduction book to Windows Azure. Yes, this is a rapidly changing technology and consider using this book as Windows Azure 101. I liked the organization of this book and really offers a good high level overview of Windows Azure, cloud table storage, blob storage, integration with WCF, access control, SQL Azure, etc. You can't expect to develop a fully functional enterprise application with this book--more for learning the basics.

The text was purchased primarily for the chapter on WCF integration. That chapter's how-to exercise overlooks several important pieces i.e. the implementation of the interface. The missing details can be discerned by reviewing the source code (available for download at the publisher's site). Even so it is unnecessarily frustrating.

There are no conceptual insights provided concerning the exercise. It's just a rote step-by-step (albeit incomplete) with no explanations beyond do this, do that. In a word horrible.

Azure is new and I need to get up to speed due to projects need.
This book gives me what I need: using Cloud Storage with LINQ and SQL Azure. I also find the sample codes in Access Control chapter useful. Bottom line is that I feel I have learned enough from this book to get started with Windows Azure. I will look for other advanced books for deep-dive discussion.